Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Read the below article to learn how the NIE report has been crucial. It basically suggests the US a full-fledged negotiation with Teheran's government on mutual concerns. I think it has written very quickly and lacks some of the fundamental element which makes the recommendations a sort of linear, however if there is anyway to get off of nuclear dead-end, that should be just engagement:

hy should any Iranian leader take such rhetoric as a legitimate invitation to the table? Iran has tried tactical cooperation with the United States several times over the past two decades - including helping to secure the release of hostages from Lebanon in the 1980s and sending shipments of arms to Bosnian Muslims when the United States was forbidden to do so. (Read the rest of the article here.)